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8 a.m., Oct. 19, 2010----The University of Delaware's Office of Equity and Inclusion honored more than 150 undergraduate and graduate women at the annual Women of Promise dinner on Oct. 5. More than 100 tenured women faculty, as well as UD administrators, including President Patrick Harker, were in attendance.

The University's tenured women faculty are invited to nominate exceptional women undergraduate and graduate students and then they accompany them to the dinner. The goal of the Women of Promise dinner is to promote positive mentoring relationships between faculty and students, and to encourage students to continue succeeding in and out of the University.

In her “Lessons I Learned Underwater” keynote, she shared her experiences during her underwater research in the Caribbean and applied the important lessons she learned to the lives of the women students in the room.

She stressed the significance of friendships and mentorships, the importance of giving back, being conscious of the pitfalls of stereotyping, that one needs to understand and embrace their strengths and weaknesses, and to embrace life's challenges as opportunities.